PASSING through California on a mid-term campaign swing, Barack Obama made a point of stopping off to see Steve Jobs, the boss of Apple.

经历了一次加州中期选举的时候，奥巴马做出了一个决定，就是中途下车去看望苹果公司的老板史蒂夫·乔布斯。

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It was eerie, like the volume had been flipped off on South Africa's soundtrack, like the whole World Cup and the street-festival spirit it engendered had been nothing but a passing dream.

这真是诡异，就好像南非的乐曲戛然而止，好像世界杯以及它带来的的街头狂欢精神都成为逝去的梦。

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Instead, I fainted and hit my head on the sideboard, my last thought before passing out being that maybe if I hit myself hard enough I would get a couple of days in bed. A while off school.

我想要对他们都表示感谢，但我却昏倒了，头撞在了食具柜上，在我即将昏迷的那一瞬，我最后的念头是，如果撞得足够厉害，或许可以卧床休息一两天，那样可以有几天不用去学校，并能使别人对我稍加观注。

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The Brewers passing on Prince Fielder during the off-season and lukewarm play during 2012 hindered their attendances.

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Tate finished off a cross-field passing move for a simple touch down on the right, before a terrible misjudgement by Papua New Guinea full-back Ryan Tongia gifted Cronk a try.

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In the 1990s, at the insistence of Massimo D'Alema, leader of the biggest left-wing party, the centre-left government held off passing laws to break Mr Berlusconi's virtual monopoly on private television.

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